Anthropomorphism is perhaps one of the oldest artistic manifestations of mankind, immediately after cave paintings. We have the fables in literature and, although Paulo Brighenti doesn’t rely on this stylistic approach, his sculptures seem to be ready to tell stories of long-gone times.Paulo Brighenti has...
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Canhota [Left-handed], an individual exhibition presented by Mariana Gomes at Fundação Carmona e Costa (extended until 20 July), stands out for its dynamism and boldness. It’s irreverent, disruptive, dashing, humour-laden and unpretentious. It surprises, it knocks the wind out of the viewer, it sets booby-traps,...
Canhota [Left-handed], an indi...
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In Lisbon, when walking up to 30 Rua do Monte Olivete, the storefront shows us a painting that actually resembles a relic. The relic is a metal plate (later we find that it is actually a working die) with a reversed inscription that requires some...
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“Perhaps the most important creative activity in my life was not pictorial”, these are the words of Manuel Costa Cabral, who in 1963 graduated in painting from the Superior School of Fine Arts in Lisbon. His professional career was not merely confined to working in...
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Handicrafts, including weaving and tapestry, have, for a long time, been associated with artistic efforts. The so-called manual labours have always been a domestic and feminine activity. Homer described it in Odyssey: Penelope was expecting Ulysses’ arrival and, as a way to avoid the horde...
Handicrafts, including weaving...
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Nocturno is the site-specific installation that marks the return of the Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto to our country, shown at Appleton Square until June 22, curated by David Barro. Sharing the title of the exhibition held last May at the Casa Triângulo gallery, in São...
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Dialogues: Pirgo de Chaves, an object obtained from an archaeological excavation lends the title to Francisco Tropa’s exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. However, it’s the dialogues that are the true dynamo of the exhibition. Not only the dialogue that Tropa perennially establishes between the...
Dialogues: Pirgo de Chaves, an...
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Gonçalo Conde has been feeling the urge to be connected to the art realm since he was 13. His greatest passion is fashion, but the gateway to this world has been the antiquities he has collected since his twenties. Life led him to opt for...
Gonçalo Conde has been feelin...
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Fiction and Fabrication. Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn is an exhibition assembled by Pedro Gadanho and Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues, whose leitmotif is the evocation of Photoshop’s thirtieth anniversary and the consequent banalization of digital tools in photography, it is found at MAAT’s Main...
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The city of Lisbon has a number of unique places which revive a forgotten urban and neighbourhood living, on the account of last decades social changes. The public wash-houses are an example of this: huge tanks used to wash clothes and a meeting point between...
The city of Lisbon has a numbe...
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